LAST DAY FOR TWO WEEKS

 Yep.

Today Stew gets to stop work for a couple of weeks.

I know he is really hanging out for it.  He's so tired.

Of course, there will be some yard work to be done over the next week or so, cos our lawns look ready for making hay!

But basically, we are going to kick back and just relax, enjoy visiting friends and family, and so on.

Lots of time in the pool.  Provided the weather plays nice that is.

We are expecting Mike and Joyce this evening.  Can't wait to see them again.

And at some point today Lacy is calling in to collect her car.  I'm really looking forward to that!  It's been a bloody eyesore on my driveway I can tell ya.

I'm working on a new Market 'Sign' for my Gazebo ... I started it yesterday.  I will work on it some more today.

There wasn't too much 'wrong' with the first one I made, I just wasn't 100% happy with it.  I'd joined two pieces together to form the sign, and it wasn't PERFECT.   While I have time up my sleeve, I decided to make a better one.

And... that's me for now.

Catch ya later.

11 am, and I've finished outlining the lettering for my sign.

ABOVE: Now I have to decide if I leave it that simple, or embellish it a bit?  What do you think?

I was thinking MAYBE some pretty flower stitching around it?  Dunno.

I still have to put the backing on it, perhaps a strip of thin wood along the bottom to keep it straight?  Decisions, decisions.

5.40 pm:  I went to WW over in Melville today.  It was a 20 minute drive in heavy traffic.  Melville is an outer suburb of Hamilton, south of us.

I went up .500 grams.  A bit annoyed with myself, but totally understand the gain.  Emotional eating is going on.  

Too much stress in the background.

I hope to reign it in over the next week.  HA HA HA!  Tis Christmas FFS.

But I will try.

I spent the remainder of the afternoon folding and putting away washing, preparing linen for Mike 'n' Joyce, and draining the pool.

It just won't clear up 100%, and I've now spent $120 on three different Clarifiers to no avail.  So the pool experts said I should drain at least a third of the water out and replace it with fresh.

So, I am now flooding my back yard!  But needs must.  The cloudiness was doing my bloody head in.  All the chemical levels were bang on, so it's just shit water.

Stew arrived home fairly early, like 5.20 pm.  He's done.  Totally ready to just put his feet up and have a beer (or rum).  😊😉😋🍺

Mike 'n' Joyce are about 3/4's of the way here, making good progress.  Can't wait to see them.

ABOVE: And the kids have arrived safely.

Beau and the girls are getting re-acquainted.  Some argy-bargy, growls and snaps from the girls which Beau just LOVES!

He wants to play with them, but they ain't having a bar of it.

But on a whole, they are getting along not too bad.

Time to sign off for the day.  Catch ya tomorrow.